Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 2 | Punishment , by several indications swift and far-reaching , has been meted out for incompetence , not insubordination . |
| 3 | A couple to note in the Sturt colours are Scintillas Crest and Scintillas Silk — who have been pencilled in for Thursday 's meeting . |
| 4 | A tour has been pencilled in for November but , if you ca n't wait , Sean 's management would like to remind you that there 's a video around called Sean Hughes — Live And Seriously Funny . |
| 5 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 6 | However you organise your checking routine , it is crucial to present written work which has been checked over for spelling . |
| 7 | Analyses have also been carried out for customers , such as Yorkshire Water plc . |
| 8 | More specialised sampling has also been carried out for gold and pathfinder elements ( Edmunds , personal communication October 1989 ) . |
| 9 | Routine Guthrie testing has been carried out for phenylketonuria since the mid-1970s and testing for hypothyroidism since the mid-'80s . |
| 10 | He found a place in sight of one of the park 's two lakes where a small plantation of young trees had been fenced off for protection . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , Charlie , you know my mind 's been made up for years . |
| 12 | In the Captain 's office the Substitute snapped his briefcase shut and his registrar handed over the warrants that had been made out for Rudolfo , Scano 's boy and the gamekeeper . |
| 13 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 14 | Most of it has n't been turned over for years . |
| 15 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 16 | Four in five employees surveyed believed they had been turned down for jobs because they were too old , even though they had the right skills . |
| 17 | This three-pronged approach has proved to be a successful formula , and many new markets have been opened up for companies as a result of participation on a mission . |
| 18 | Detectives seized eight kilos of coca leaves , the base for cocaine , which were to have been handed out for visitors to chew at the Bolivian Pavilion . |
| 19 | With my letter , I sent you two copies of an Agreement that had been drawn up for signature on behalf of AT&T , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements . |
| 20 | In many , the enclosure award of Georgian days was only the final clearing-up of remnants of open field that survived after piecemeal enclosure had been going on for generations or even centuries . |
| 21 | Almost equally important was the ending , by a series of agreements in 1745 , 1773 and 1790 , of a struggle for influence which had been going on for generations between the Reichskanzlei ( Imperial Chancery ) under its hereditary head , the Elector of Mainz , and the Hofkanzlei ( the Chancery of the Habsburg hereditary lands ) . |
| 22 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 23 | The relationship between cash crops , particularly those for export , and subsistence crops for local consumption , has occasioned an intense and sometimes bitter debate that has been going on for decades , if not centuries , and goes to the very heart of the global capitalist system and its transnational contradictions . |
| 24 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 25 | I thought this phone call had been going on for hours . |
| 26 | The raids had been going on for months , but had become increasingly violent : by mid-May they involved border posts being strafed with bullets or set on fire . |
| 27 | It 's been going on for months |
| 28 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 29 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 30 | When I told Flynn of this , he said , ‘ Oh , that 's been going on for centuries , did you not know ? ’ |